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Associated Press:
100 Days: Trump faces headwinds as Election Day draws near — WASHINGTON (AP) — With the November election 100 days away, more Americans say the country is heading in the wrong direction than at any previous point in Donald Trump's presidency, putting the incumbent in a perilous position …
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Harry Enten / CNN:
Trump is behind in a state no Republican has won the presidency without in 96 years — (CNN)Poll of the week: A new CNN/SSRS poll finds that former Vice President Joe Biden leads in the state of Florida by a 51% to 46% margin over President Donald Trump among registered voters.
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Financial Times
CBS News:
CBS News Battleground Tracker poll: Trump up one in Ohio as Biden leads Michigan — Some elections are just about “the economy,” but despite the downturn, 2020 is about much more; there's just too much else happening. And while there's no big edge for either President Trump …
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The Hill and The Guardian
CNN:
CNN Polls: Biden leads in three key states Trump won in 2016
CNN Polls: Biden leads in three key states Trump won in 2016
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Marist Poll, Vanity Fair, Mother Jones, Politico and The Hill
Andrew O'Reilly / Fox News:
Biden campaign declines ‘Fox News Sunday’ interview, 1 week after Chris Wallace's Trump sitdown
Biden campaign declines ‘Fox News Sunday’ interview, 1 week after Chris Wallace's Trump sitdown
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NBC News and The Inquisitr
Frank E. Lockwood / Arkansas Online:
Bill by Sen. Tom Cotton targets curriculum on slavery — WASHINGTON — A New York Times-based school curriculum emphasizing American slavery instead of American independence has been targeted by U.S. Sen. Tom Cotton. — The Little Rock Republican introduced legislation Thursday …
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The Guardian, Mediaite and Political Wire
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ABC News:
Oakland protesters set fire to courthouse and vandalize — A protest through the streets of downtown Oakland, California, in support of racial justice and police reform turned violent when “agitators” among the demonstrators set fire to a courthouse, vandalized a police station and shot fireworks at officers
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Instapundit and Twitchy
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Rachel Hutton / Star Tribune:
Couple flaunt swastika face masks at southwestern Minnesota Walmart — At the request of the Marshall, Minn., store, the two were told they'll face arrest if they return there. — TEXT SIZE — Just before noon Saturday, police officers in Marshall, Minn., were called to the town's Walmart …
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TheBlaze, Daily Kos, Mother Jones, New York Post and Towleroad Gay News
Robert Costa / Washington Post:
Sen. Hawley lays down new antiabortion marker for Supreme Court nominees — Sen. Josh Hawley (R-Mo.), a member of the Senate Judiciary Committee, said Sunday that he would not support any future nominee for the Supreme Court unless they had publicly stated before their nomination that Roe v. Wade …
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The Hill
Marina Fang / HuffPost:
Acting Legend Olivia De Havilland Dies At 104 — The two-time Oscar winner and “Gone with the Wind” star was also a vocal opponent of unfair labor laws and sexism in Hollywood. — Olivia de Havilland, one of the last remaining stars of Hollywood's golden age and the oldest living Academy Award winner …
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New York Times, Vanity Fair and The Daily Beast
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Keith Staskiewicz / EW.com:
‘Gone With the Wind’ star Olivia de Havilland dies at 104
Christina Ruffini / CBS News:
Controversial U.S. Ambassador to Iceland wants firearm, security for Reykjavik post — The U.S. Ambassador to Iceland wants to carry a gun. — Despite being assigned to one of the safest countries in the world, Jeffrey Ross Gunter has been “paranoid” about his security since coming to Reykjavik last year …
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Lawyers, Guns & Money
New York Times:
1 Killed in Shooting at Protest in Austin … AUSTIN, Texas — It was not unusual for Garrett Foster to be at a protest against police brutality on a Saturday night. And it was not out of character for him to be armed as he marched. — Mr. Foster was carrying an AK-47 rifle as he joined …
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Austin American-Statesman, BuzzFeed News, The Gateway Pundit, KTLA, CNBC and The Root
Eric Umansky / ProPublica:
We're Publishing Thousands of Police Discipline Records That New York Kept Secret for Decades — ProPublica obtained these police records from New York City's Civilian Complaint Review Board. NYPD unions are suing to halt the city from making the data public.
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Axios and New York Post
Rosalind Helderman / Washington Post:
Trump keeps touting New Jersey fraud case to attack mail voting. Local leaders say he's not telling the whole story. — Five days before the citizens of Paterson, N.J., selected new members of their city council in May, a postal employee in a neighboring town spotted something suspicious …
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Spencer Fordin / Florida Politics:
Former U.S. Rep. David Jolly hints at possible run for Governor or U.S. Senate — Jolly tweeted that he is “strongly considering” a run for Senate in 2022 — Former U.S. Rep. David Jolly may have some bigger moves in his future. — Jolly, the U.S. Rep. for Florida's 13th Congressional District …
John Bowden / The Hill:
Trump backs out of throwing first pitch at Yankees game — President Trump announced Sunday he wouldn't be throwing out the opening pitch for the New York Yankees next month as he had planned, citing meetings and other work related to the U.S.'s COVID-19 outbreak.
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Mother Jones, Associated Press, Politico and Bloomberg
ABC News:
‘This Week’ Transcript 7-26-20: White House Chief of Staff Mark Meadows, Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham — This is a rush transcript and may be updated. — A rush transcript of “This Week with George Stephanopoulos” airing on Sunday, July 26, 2020 on ABC News is below.
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POLITICUSUSA, Politico, Fox News, The Hill and New York Post
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Conrad Wilson / OPB:
More federal officers deploying to Portland as protests gain momentum — Several dozen additional out-of-town federal law enforcement officers are deploying to Portland as they look to make additional arrests in the coming days, while also shifting tactics from the use of tear gas, according to multiple federal law enforcement sources.
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Oregonian, New York Times and UPI
Mia Cathell / The Post Millennial:
Radio host mocks Trump by claiming Seattle is peaceful, then rioters torched his apartment building — Seattle radio host and Twitter-based criminal defense advocate Paul Gallant “dunked” on President Donald Trump last month by denying that the riots are violent, then the radio host was scored …
Sheri Fink / New York Times:
How Coronavirus Ravaged One Houston Family — Coronavirus numbers have shot up across the country. A family in Texas, a virus hot spot, describes how the illness quickly spread among them and hospitalized both parents. — We're here at Houston Methodist Hospital.
David French / The Dispatch:
A Eulogy for a Friend, a Lament for our Nation — America today—broken people, breaking each other. — 10 hr — This week a friend of mine died, and people across the country celebrated his death. — His name was Mike Adams. He was a “controversial” conservative Christian professor …
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National Review, USA Today and BuzzFeed News
Michael Wilson / New York Times:
Empty Towers, No Power Lunches: Ghostly Midtown Is Omen for N.Y.C. — 7,500 workers are missing from a famous building. A food cart sells 10 hot dogs a day. The virus's effect on one block could be a vision of the city's future. — Editors and account managers at the Time & Life Building …
John Harwood / CNN:
How the Republican Party opened itself up to the Trump takeover — (CNN)Washington in 2020 often beggars belief: an American President answering a deadly pandemic with ignorance, inflaming racial unrest with racism, stoking violent confrontations while his fearful party stands mute.
Jess Bidgood Globe / The Boston Globe:
A bipartisan group secretly gathered to game out a contested Trump-Biden election. It wasn't pretty — WASHINGTON — On the second Friday in June, a group of political operatives, former government and military officials, and academics quietly convened online for what became a disturbing exercise …
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No More Mister Nice Blog and Raw Story